A WIDOW’S SUICIDE.
MARRIED TO NEW ZEALANDER.
By Te’egrsnh —Tress Assn —Copyright.
Received Jan. 26, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 25.
During an inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Irene Welsh, a widow, who committed suicide by jumping from a window of a Kensington boardinghouse, it was stated her first husband was a New Zealand soldier, who was killed in the war. Mrs. Welsh had a capital of £3OOO. .but she spent or lost it all. mainly in fraudulent investments. On one occasion she paid fifty guineas consideration for a promise that she could understudy Miss Gladys Cooper. The New Zealand Government generously gave her a pension for two years "after her first husband’s death. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1922, Page 5
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117A WIDOW’S SUICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1922, Page 5
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